Paleontology
Paleontology
Pterosaur ancestor had a beak
230 million years ago, bipedal animal with long fingers surprisingly had a beak
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Paleontology
Hollow bones promoted gigantism in dinosaurs
Fossil helps explain how dinosaurs became giants
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Paleontology
Fossil extends the history of peppers
Chili peppers appear to have existed in North America long before their supposed origin in South America
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Paleontology
Related sauropods found in Australia and South America
Dinosaur species from Australia roamed between continents 95 million years ago
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Archaeology
Fossil was a giant honeybee hive
Giant honeybee nest mistaken for a fossil, leading to erroneous geological conclusions
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Paleontology
A 34-million-year-old flower
Revised description of fossilized flower preserved in amber indicates the climate in northern Europe was milder in the distant past
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Paleontology
A boreal forest from the past
Polar desert in Greenland may have been a boreal forest two million years ago
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Paleontology
The banded spider of Taubaté
Fossil from Taubaté used to describe an extinct spider with a banded pattern and very long front legs
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Archaeology
A 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice
Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice
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PALEONTOLOGY
Myanmar fossils in foreign hands
Publication figures indicate that paleontologists took advantage of armed conflicts in Myanmar to gain access to fossils preserved in amber
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History
Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks
Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks in 480 B.C.
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Paleontology
The first bipedal hominids
Considered the oldest representative of the human lineage, the species Sahelanthropus tchadensis lived around seven million years ago
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PALEONTOLOGY
Fred the wandering mastodon
Researchers identify the migratory routes of a mastodon that died approximately 13,200 years ago
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Paleontology
São Paulo was once covered by forest
São Paulo Metropolitan Area was once covered by vast forest of araucaria trees between 180,000 and 135,000 years ago
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Paleontology
The Cause of Big John’s Headache
Hole in dinosaur skull resulted from an attack before it died 66 million years ago
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PALEONTOLOGY
A precursor to dinosaurs
An 11-centimeter right femur is all that remains of the oldest dinosaur precursor ever found in South America
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Paleontology
The largest “sea dragon” fossil in the UK
Paleontologists and conservationists announced that they had identified the UK's largest ichthyosaur fossil
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Paleoecology
Caribbean incursions
Studies back up the hypothesis that the Caribbean Sea flooded parts of the western Amazon between 23 and 10 million years ago
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PALEONTOLOGY
Armed and Armored
A new species of armored dinosaur with a very peculiar tail has been described by Chilean paleontologists
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Zoology
Protozoan fossil in Brazilian amber
Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have described a new extinct species of protozoan: Palaeohypothrix bahiensis
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Paleontology
The Battle of the Fossils
The State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany announced that it has no plans to return the original fossil of Ubirajara jubatus to Brazil
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